The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their constitutional powers. Auxiliary to this, but not secondary in importance, is a due knowledge of the leading subjects for their inquiry and decision.
IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
Government must continue to live within its means.
They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.